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Gao Yu, one of China's most prominent journalists, attends the opening of a photo exhibition by Liu Xa, wife of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Hong Kong, in this June 9, 2012 file photo. A Chinese court has sentenced Gao, accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website, to seven years in prison, her lawyer said on Friday, a ruling that reflects the sensitivity surrounding the party's inner workings. Gao, 71, who was tried behind closed doors in Beijing last November, was convicted on a charge of providing state secrets to foreign contacts, her lawyer, Mo Shaoping, said. Picture taken June 9, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files